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Just got back from a stellar trip to Spokane. I had the good fortune to play a house show at the Starry House! Thank you so much to Michelle, Dave, Margaret, Michael for your hospitality and Michelle for making the video. And a special thanks to Runaway Octopus for bringing the PA and playing a kickass set! Here's a video of a new song "Between Stations."

Here's the plan: (all of this somewhere between 8 and 11:59pm)1. Short set Scott and Randy. New birds may bite songs performed as a duo (accordion/vocal and guitar).2. Hear the Just to Taste record in its entirety.3. Ama Trio will take you into your dreams.

Hello dear reader!This is my post Once post. Jason Webley's festival called Once was last weekend and it was the most rejuvenating experience I've had in a long time. Long story short, I'm back to being a songwriter - a performing one at least. This was the best, most attentive, loving, and fun audience ever!

I also met so many great people, and some of the best exchanges I had were with fellow songwriters. It seems we've all had plenty of experiences of playing to people who are doing their best to ignore us. Go figure, other people had this experience too? Is that a good reason to give up doing something that is one's chosen way to express things? Guess not.

Anyway, I'm all hopped up about this... Now I'm in the mode of scaring up some more gigs. I just asked to play at a friend's party and I also asked to play at my upcoming High School reunion. I'm planning to write a song especially for my fellow classmates. I can't think of a more intimidating audience; I know it will get my juices flowing... Stay tuned.

The photo below was taken by my friend Travis Hartnett at Cafe Racer. He also took the one that's currently the backdrop on this site.

I am proud to be performing a solo birds may bite set at Jason Webley's Once festival this coming weekend (June 10-12, 2016). I'm putting together a four song set to be delivered on accordion and vocal. These are all new songs... The solo set will be on Friday evening; I'll also perform with the Debaucherauntes on Saturday. For more info: http://hereatonce.com/

I mentioned in my last post that my old friend Julie Green passed away a couple weeks ago. I want to share a track that we made together in 1995. Along with Julie's sister Anjanette, we were called the Service Berries. Here's a link to one of our tunes called "Do You Believe." As I recall, I recorded the guitar part onto a cassette and gave it to her and she just ran with it... She was really proud of it at the time and for good reason. Do You Believe

Well, it's been a long absence from being a diligent website updater. For that, my dear friends, I apologize. I met a nice couple at a party tonight, handed my new friend a business card and immediately apologized for my neglected website. "A well managed website is the sign of someone with too much time on their hands..." Get a life, you lousy website updaters!

Seriously, I mourned a friend today. We made some music together back in the 90's that really changed my life, was a real gift to me. I will miss you, Julie Green. I plan to post some Service Berries recordings soon.

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Previous events

Oct8

Double CD Release with Josh Lanza!

Saturday, October 8, 2011 @ 8:00PMSat, Oct 8, 2011 @ 8:00PM

Belltown Underground, 2407 1st Ave , Seattle (Belltown) 98102, WA

8:00 - 9:00 - 25 minute sets by Josh and Scott (with guests)
9:00 - ???? - you are invited to perform up to 10 minutes
???? - 2:00 - White Album Jam - everyone's invited to lead songs from the Beatles' White Album in a jam format. Original keys, please - in case people want to practice!

No cover

We're not selling booze or food, so BYO. (We'll do a Costco run for some snacks, but they don't have salo, so you Ukrainians, BYOS)

This is not a loud thing. Think Nirvana unplugged. There will be amps, but everything will be really low, since Josh and Scott are whiny noise-averse babies. Wah-waaahhh.

It's a private party, but your friends are welcome.

Please help with the celebrating! After tumultuous three year odysseys, Scott Adams and Josh Lanza have completed their newest CDs. Josh's CD is songs based on Pushkin's poetry, and Scott's birds may bite, bees may not is his first CD since 2003.

After Scott and Josh do their short sets, we will open up the floor for others to perform. We'll have a signup sheet, backline drums (with brushes), bass amp, guitar amp, PA, for quiet-ish sets of music, poetry, acting, readings, comedy, defend your Ph.D., (if we can get a projector, film/animation would be cool) - however you art.

After that, we'll do the jamming, using the Beatles' White Album as a format - learn a song or two so you can lead it. We'll going to try to find some way to project the lyrics. This is an experiment, of course, which is sort of what got us here anyway

We've been doing this gig weekly since September. Thursday, December 30th is the last one. Ivory will be back in February with a brand new lounge act. If you haven't seen us yet, please come; we've really absorbed the tunes!

If I walked into a bar and there was a lounge act, how would I want to be serenaded? What would I want to hear on a grand piano? I would want to hear it with a soft electric guitar (Scott Adams) and soft sultry drums (Zeke Keeble). Some Syd Barrett, Morrissey, Jobim, Os Mutantes, Nico, Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley...you’ve got the picture.

This is a preview of a work in progress called "Discorruption" by the Butoh Jam Crew. It features choreography by Sheri Brown, Alan Sutherland, and Lin Lucas. Music is by Rosalynn DeRoos, Andy Zadrozny, and Scott Adams. We will be part of !!ArtsLaunch!! (more info below)

!!ArtsLaunch!! is a bi-annual event supporting new work by emerging and established Seattle artists. In each performance, 7-9 artists working in a variety of media present current work. The performance will be followed by an informal discussion where each piece offers a window into the creative process. The events are open to the public with $5-$15 suggested donation.

The goal of !!Artslaunch!! is to provide artists from a variety of backgrounds an opportunity to show work without the pressures of more formal venues, and to enjoy inter-disciplinary dialogue with the community.

Hell’s Bellows describes themselves as “a fearsome set of musicians
bringing the gospel of accordion chaos from Seattle to the world at
large.” Drawing elements from experimental minimalism and rhythms and
tones collected from around the world, Hell’s Bellows (Amy Denio,
Marchette Dubois, Scott Adams, and Eli Kaufman) weave a lush,
intricate tapestry of sound with four accordions, “dexterous finger
wigglings and pokings, industrious toe tappings, industrial foot
stompings, sighings, sightings, and sporadic grinning.”

Stefan Gruber is an animator and art wizard from Seattle. He is also
the creator of 3-Way-Soccer, the most eternally dignified sport known
to the western world.

His films are narratives of inquiry, self-discovery, and catharsis
through ever-shifting, dreamlike worlds.

A lot of my films have that theme in mind - where there’s a
liberator and there someone who’s caged or leashed. Someone who
obviously has a lot of love and a lot of sweetness and I want to see
that unleashed.”

All music will be performed on string and percussion instruments designed and built by Ken Jacobson. Most of these instruments use microtonal intervals in tempered and non-tempered scales (12 tone equal temperament with select quartertones, and just intonation)

Performers will include Scott Adams, Stephen Parris, and Ken Jacobson.

Ken Jacobson is a multi-instrumentalist and luthier. He has been building instruments since 1996 and has been part of Seattle's music community since 2001. Ken currently works for Dusty Strings in Seattle building folk harps and hammered dulcimers. He also maintains a shop at home where he designs and builds a variety of acoustic and electric instruments.
Ken can be found performing around the Seattle area playing drums/percussion, electric bass, touch guitar, electronics, and his own instrument creations.www.myspace.com/kenjacobson